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What’s Your School Board’s Next Strategic Challenge?

By Dustin McKissen, October 07, 2016

Everyone knows that school boards face big challenges.

So what is your district’s most pressing issue?

Is it teacher retention? Is it increasing standardized test
scores? Is it reducing classroom size? Is it getting more technology in the
classroom? Improving parent involvement? What about creating more STEM
activities and opportunities for students? Is your district concerned about
funding?

Chances are, your school district is dealing with those challenges—and
potentially much more. Leading a school district in today’s world is not an
easy task. Limited time and funds compete with almost limitless demands. That’s
why creating a high-performing district requires talented staff and dedicated
school board members.

Luckily, you have a talented staff and board members who are
passionate about your learning community.

Now you need to get them all in a room together to discuss
the future of the district and the kids you serve. However, bringing your district
leadership into the same room to talk about your district’s future isn’t
enough.

You need more than that.

Your school district needs a strategic plan.

That’s why
BoardPaq has developed the first
collaborative strategic planning tool designed
to help engage your district's leadership team in developing high-impact
strategies that get your learning community to the next level. This exciting
new feature allows your board members to collaborate in a simple, easy,
inexpensive manner.

You don’t need an
expensive strategic planning facilitator or a weeklong retreat. Your board and
staff can sit in a room and use BoardPaq and collaboratively identify your
district’s most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
using our easy-to-use SWOT tool.

Be the next of a
growing number of school districts that are using BoardPaq to not just conduct
paperless board and committee meetings, but also to engage in a collaborative
SWOT analysis that will put their district ahead of the curve.

Dustin McKissen is the founder of McKissen + Company, an association management and marketing firm. He is a Certified Association Executive and has served as an executive or consultant to a wide variety trade associations, professional societies, and nonprofits.